As Trump lashes out, Republicans grow uneasy
“President Trump, after days of lashing out angrily at the London mayor and federal courts in the wake of the London Bridge terrorist attack, faces a convergence of challenges this week that threatens to exacerbate the fury that has gripped him — and that could further hobble a Republican agenda that has slowed to a crawl on Capitol Hill…”
(Washington Post)

Contractor charged in NSA document leak case
“A 25-year-old government contractor has been charged with mishandling classified information after authorities say she gave a top-secret National Security Agency document to a news ­organization…” (Washington Post)

A question of justice
“Fifty years after the June 1967 war, the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands continues. Whatever new plan is devised will concern the entire region and the wider Muslim world…” (Le Monde diplomatique)

Britain’s Multiculturalism Falters
“The UK is coming to terms with a third violent attack in as many weeks as the country prepares to vote this Thursday…” (Le Monde diplomatique)

German parliament passes law ending child marriage
“The German parliament passed a law ending child marriage late on Thursday night, officially raising the marriageable age to 18.
The new law officially makes 18 the minimum age for marriage. Previously, 16-year-olds were allowed to marry adults in certain cases with court permission…” (The Local – de)

The management team of Face Activities extends our deepest condolences to the victims, and their families, of the terrorist attack in London, today. It’s another tragic and unconscionable outrage committed by the worst of criminals.

Today three terrorists launched a two-pronged attack in London, just two weeks after the attack in Manchester following Ariana Grande’s concert. The attack occurred at London Bridge, a prominent UK Landmark that regularly attracts scores of visitors. A van swerved into the crowd, deliberately trying to strike and kill or injure as many people as possible.

Then knife-wielding assassins wearing fake suicide vests exited the vehicle and began stabbing people, including one British transport officer. The terrorists were confronted and shot dead by police in Borough Market, near the south end of London Bridge. The entire rampage lasted only eight minutes, but at least six people lost their lives, and at least 30 were wounded.

In the wake of these attacks, President Donald Trump called for courts to reinstate his travel ban. Though the investigation is ongoing, the crime appears to follow a pattern of recent terror attacks committed in homage to ISIS.